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Re:GPT-4 Details Leaked by RC_ITR on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @12:34PM (#36697221)
I mean, sure you can work around it, but from your own link:

>since the time and memory complexity of self-attention are quadratic in sequence length

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Re:GPT-4 Details Leaked by why_only_15 on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:37PM (#36698468)
Except in practice this is not true, and hasn't been for more than a year. It's not just a workaround either -- FlashAttention is both faster at runtime and uses less memory.
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